AM Stay’s full agenda is now obtainable to discover with over 20 trade professionals able to share their views on the most important challenges dealing with the automotive retail trade.

The occasion, delivered to you by AM and the Nationwide Franchised Seller Affiliation (NFDA), is being held on the NEC, close to Birmingham on November 9 and is free to attend for franchised and unbiased supplier professionals. The present provides 4 devoted seminar theatres and an exhibition corridor filled with the newest improvements from the UK’s main automotive retail suppliers.

The seminar content material throughout the day will probably be break up between Digital, Gross sales, Aftersales and Technique, protecting all the most important trade matters together with the company retail mannequin, disruptor EV manufacturers getting into the UK market, used automotive knowledge science, electrical car income and extra.

Main UK automotive retail consultants from Arnold Clark, Pendragon, CarShop, Carbase and Wilsons will all be sharing case research and their experience on the present.

Progressive digital transformation specialists from CitNOW Group, Keyloop, Advertising and marketing Supply, Phyron and Repute will all supply their assist and recommendation on the newest pondering on matters like omnichannel retailing, AI and automation, advertising and marketing and extra.

Not solely will the occasion supply a packaged schedule of seminar content material, there may even be over 50 progressive suppliers underneath one roof for delegates to discover the newest improvements and benchmark the most effective options for his or her enterprise.

Key seminar session highlights at AM Stay:

Cybercrime: Plan your digital defence

• Eddie Hawthorne, Arnold Clark chief govt
• Mark Rodbert, Idax Software program chief govt

AM100 supplier teams are being more and more focused by cybercriminals trying to maintain their companies to ransom. Eddie Hawthorne, Arnold Clark chief govt, will share his expertise of the enterprise being attacked on the finish of 2022 and the way the corporate labored to get well and put together its defences for the longer term. Mark Rodbert, chief govt at Idax Software program may even present recommendation on reviewing an organization’s inside processes and methods to verify they aren’t caught out.

The large company mannequin debate

This session will look at the need of many status and mainstream manufacturers to manage the brand new automotive gross sales course of and have nearer relationships with customers whereas transferring their retail companions onto agency-type agreements. Automotive retailers must rigorously navigate the break up between franchised and company fashions throughout the subsequent 12 months. This session will look at the advantages of company, however may even immediate some wholesome debate on the challenges it creates for the sector too.

• Kristian Elvefors, Volvo Automobile UK managing director
• Steve Younger, ICDP managing director
• Miles Trowe, TLT companion & NFDA retained authorized advisor

Place your bets: Rising OEMs

Rising Chinese language manufacturers are getting into the UK en masse and looking for to be the brand new Kia and Hyundai for the 2020s and 2030s. Profitable franchised sellers can see via the attraction offensive and wager on manufacturers with probably the most potential. This session will discover all of the alternatives and disruption new entrants will carry to the UK market over the following 24 months.

• Tony Whitehorn, T Whitehorn Consultancy advisor
• Owen Edwards, Grant Thornton head of downstream automotive
• Mike Dean, Bloomberg Intelligence international head of automotive analysis

Causes to attend AM Stay 2023

• Benchmark your small business and verify your technique and trajectory towards others within the trade via fireplace chats with different automotive retail leaders
• Be part of within the debate on the most important matters within the trade just like the company mannequin, disruptor EV manufacturers, omnichannel retailing and extra
• Reaffirm and construct in your present data by seeing the newest methods and expertise obtainable from the UK’s main motor retail suppliers
• Community with motor retail friends, producer and provider companions